Fabián Panisello - Panisello: Trumpet Concerto, Chamber Concerto & Violin Conc (2015)

This CD contains the first recording of three works that offer a fascinating perspective of the genre of the concerto: the Violin Concerto, the Chamber Concerto – recorded live at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2008 – and the Trumpet Concerto; all of them conducted by Panisello himself at the forefront of Plural Ensemble.

On few occasions do we encounter such a marked union of complexity and transparency as is present in the catalogue of Fabián Panisello. His intelligent approach to the procedures of composition is translated into a style which, germinating from principles of constructive consistency and traditional components – such as diatonic language or the temperated system – offers elements for the listener to empathise with.

The iridescent unison, which marks the beginning of the Trumpet Concerto (premiered in 2010 at the Ultraschall Festival in Berlin) presents the scenario of a work where the sound is a fundamental element and which is pre-disposed to a play on perception.

The Violin Concerto emanates from the proposal to write a composition for Francesco D’Orazio, soloist of the Corale of Luciano Berio. D’Orazio was the protagonist of the premiere of the work in the National Auditorium in Madrid in 2004, just as he is in the present recording. Following a suggestion of Berio himself, Panisello used a procedure employed by the Italian composer in his series of Chemins: managing the potential of instrumental colours in such a way that a group of instruments acts as a single instrument.